Rose Porter
Rose Porter (December 6, 1845 - September 10, 1906) was an American religious novelist who wrote or edited more than 70 books.[1]
Early years[]
Porter was born in New York, New York. Her father, David Collins Porter, was a wealthy New Yorker. He died in 1845, while Rose was an infant. Her mother, Rose Anne Hardy, was the daughter of an English army officer. Porter's early years were spent in New York and in the family's summer home in Catskills-on-the-Hudson. She was educated in New York, with the exception of a year abroad. After completing her education, she and her mother made their home in New Haven, Connecticut. After the mother died, Porter kept her home in New Haven, where she lived with her servants.
Career[]
Porter's first success was Summer Drift-Wood for the Winter Fire. Notwithstanding the fact that she was an invalid for years, Porter was a writer of quiet religious romance, publishing or editing 70 volumes.[2][3] She also wrote or edited prayer books, devotional exercises, and compilations of material for calendars and diaries.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Mitchell, Sally. "Porter, Rose". Encyclopedia.com. The Gale Group Inc. Archived from the original on June 9, 2019. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
- ^ Willard & Livermore 1897, p. 583.
- ^ Faust 1983, p. 159.
Bibliography[]
- Faust, Langdon Lynne (1 January 1983). American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. Ungar. ISBN 978-0-8044-6165-8.
- Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1897). American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century. Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick. p. 583.
Attribution[]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: F. E. Willard & M. A. R. Livermore's American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century (1897)
External links[]
- Works by Rose Porter at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- 1845 births
- 1906 deaths
- 19th-century American novelists
- American religious novelists
- American women novelists
- Writers from New York City
- 19th-century American women writers
- Novelists from New York (state)